Replaced Hard Drive How Do I Reload Operating System

I can not find my recovery disk and my computer is now too old to order a replacement (2005). When I tried to reload Windows XP Professional it blue screened and said The Bios in this sytem is not fully ACPI compliant.

You might try reinstalling the BIOS.
   ACPI Flash BIOS version 2.00 for Tecra A4 / Satellite M40 (Intel video)
You might want to order the recovery disc from a third party.
   Digitalmedia-labs.com
   MyRecoveryCDs.com
   RestoreDisks.com
   RestoreCD4u
If you come back here: Which Tecra A4? What's the part number?
-Jerry

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Buy yourself a portable hard drive from WD or the like. It should have a capacity at least twice that of your machine hard drive. Then follow the instructions that come with it; it is quite straightforward.
I have a similar machine to you by the sound of it. After the initial back up, it is just a matter of topping up every couple of months or so, plus whenever you do to back up any major upgrade.
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I use two backups. One, an external HD permanently connected for my Time Machine and the second, a portable for the reasons I gave.

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HT4848 Hello- My laptop needs the OS X recovery run. Can I download the software directly to a thumb drive without affecting my desktop unit? The Geek Squad said they need to wipe my hard drive and re-install the operating system. Thanks.

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They already damaged you Mac by fooling with the BootCamp partition without knowing what they were doing. I wouldn't suggest haveing them help you do anything.
Here is the article that describes the Recovery HD: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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My hard drive melted down. Because it had corruption on it, I couldn't simply transfer the system to the new drive and have had to reinstall software from discs and drag my data over from my external backup. I have done that with iTunes too, but the Store won't recognize my account and I can't play my iTunes purchased songs.
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Thanks, Chris.
Of course I was wrong about the new account. When I entered the username I forgot to attach my email domain, so it was not in fact an identical account name.
My other issues revolved around messages that said "iTunes Library could not be opened because it is on a locked disk or you do not have permission." I figured out how to deal with that--highlighted the iTunes Library, Got Info, and changed the permissions. It had somehow removed my username from the Owner slot. Had to do it for the Genius library, and the ibtb library as well. So it seems to be working fine now.
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Order the recovery discs.
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You're welcome, Tim.
What operating system are you installing on the machine?
The specs state it shipped with W7 Basic. That OS should load without issues.
If you are trying to install XP, it will not install unless you load the SATA ACHI drivers either at the F6 prompt or you need to slipstream them into a copy of your XP installation.
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